[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] 85xx/86xx dma updates

[Ira Snyder]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:09:58PM -0500, Peter Tyser wrote:
> This patch series attempts to clean up the DMA implementation for the
> 85xx and 86xx architectures.  The changes include:
> - consolidate 85xx and 86xx structures and code
> - add defines for bitfields
> - use proper IO accessors
> - add support for arbitrarily large transfer sizes
> - rename dma_xfer() to dmacpy() and make dmacpy's prototype similar
>   to memcpy()
> 
> The patches are based on the mainline "next" branch.
> 
> I've tested the code on MPC8572 and MPC8640-based boards.
> 
> I'm not initimately familar with the 83xx platform, but at a glance
> it looked like the fsl_dma driver could be extended to support it
> with some ifdeffery.
> 

I've been doing some Linux work with the 83xx DMA controller. The only
real differences between the 83xx/85xx controller are the register
endianness and snoop bits. The 83xx controller's registers are all
little-endian, while the 85xx is all big-endian.

Also, there are some snoop bits that need to be enabled on 83xx as well,
in the control register as well as in each descriptor if you're running
in chaining mode.

That's everything that I've noticed that is different. I don't have an
85xx/86xx to test anything with, but I'm happy to run some tests on my
mpc8349emds if you want to try adding support for 83xx.

Ira